Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Kremsmünster, Stiftsbibliothek, CC 243 (Southwest Germany, perhaps Weißenau, c1325-1330, incomplete set)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 24: Crucifixion / 24d: Eleazar stabs the elephant into its belly and is crushed by it / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 24: Crucifixion / 24d: Eleazar stabs the elephant into its belly and is crushed by it / Original composition: Eleazar under the elephant, stabbing it from beneath
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 1 Machabees / 1 Mach. 6:46: Eleazar kills an elephant from beneath and is crushed by it / Type for the Crucifixion (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Crucifixion / with 1 Mach. 6:46: Eleazar kills an elephant from beneath and is crushed by it (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / 1 Machabees (A.V. Maccabees) / Eleazar kills an elephant from beneath and is crushed by it (1 Mach. 6:46)

Further details

Artist or creator

German (southwest) or
Swiss

Date

1325 (circa) - 1330

Location

Kremsmünster, Stiftsbibliothek, CC 243

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 30r.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Evelyn Silber, The early iconography of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis: The Italian connection in the Fourteeenth Century, PhD Cambridge 1982 (typoscr.), pl. 142

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